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 Promote departmental cricket to produce top cricketers: Inzamam
14th Aug 2008 18:00 IST
Agencies
Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq today blamed the cricket board's neglect of departmental cricket responsible for the slide in Pakistan cricket and failure to produce top class players.
"By pushing back departments and restructuring first class cricket, the board has committed a grave mistake. We were on top of the world in 1992 and 1999 because we followed the departmental cricket system," the former Test batsman said.
"We need to follow the same system we used in the past and support departmental cricket. Since that system has been abolished quality players have stopped coming up," he said.
Inzamam said he was not against having region-based domestic cricket but the positive of having departments and banks play domestic competitions was that players got employment and had to compete for places against strong opposition.
"In regional cricket there is disparity between the teams in terms of players strength and that is harming our domestic cricket. We have to revert back to promoting departmental cricket or we will not be able to produce players of the caliber of a Javed Miandad or Wasim Akram," Inzamam said.
Former captain Imran Khan has been one of the biggest supporters of having region-based domestic cricket and has been vocal in his opposition to allowing departments and banks take part in first class cricket.
But Inzamam noted that it was because of departments that standard of domestic cricket was high and players got a chance to shine at the top level.
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